Games that you've abandoned playing

[Extra-Ordinary]

Resident Evil 6.

I bought it out of some good fanboy faith knowing it was gonna be pretty not great but I have this theory with co-op: Good games get better with co-op, bad games get funny. So I thought I'll play co-op with my buddy and we'll have a good laugh and we did but it just seemed like there were better games to be playing.

 

[Shuu]

Final Fantasy XIII is THE game I stopped playing. It's the game that broke my heart. It's the game I got my first job to pay for, and after racing home to play it, I came to the gradual realisation which we all must learn sooner or later.
You know the one I mean, the one that goes "wait. you mean... even important people with millions of dollars don't know what they're doing? ...Oh noooo..."

 

[CelestDaer]

Let's see...
FFXII- Just got to the scene where Fran joins in, and I'm just sitting there going, "Yeah, I don't care any longer." Nothing was catching my interest
FFXIII- Got to... um... Gaia? The planet Vanille and Fang come from? Ran around for an hour or so, and just... bleeh... I'd seen Spoony's review of it, and I was kind of enjoying it up to that point, but I guess that's where the game went off the wall bonkers, and I couldn't catch the interest again.
Dragon Age Origins- Cleared one of the areas (forget which one), then watched my roommate slog through the Dwarven roads thing, and went, "Well, I don't care any longer."
Duke Nukem Forever- A duh
Lego Indiana Jones- Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the Lego games, and I just got to the end of the story mode, and went back to start clearing the levels in free play, and, well, I just can't... I have no motivation to go back and 100%...
Psychonauts- Started to record an LP of the game, got to the end of Basic Braining, and the cut scene to get you out started, and then the game just up and crashed. No warning, just, done. So, putting that aside for a bit...

 

[ajr209]

Star wars the force unleashed (PS3). Fucking star destroyer mission. Seriously. I was doing fairly well in the game and getting through it at a nice pace. Then...Fucking star destroyer. The game's working just fine then this hot mess comes along and the targeting goes to shit, the prompts on the screen don't properly sync up with you're actually supposed to do, and the tie fighters. I don't think I've ever rage quit a game so hard.

Dark souls (PS3). You ever play a game where you can see where other people would really enjoy it but come to the conclusion that it's just not your cup of tea? This was one of those games for me. I gave it long enough I felt to make some decent progress, beat a few bosses, and get a good feel for the game. I was doing some grinding in that forest place, you know the one that everyone touts as being a good place to grind early in the game, and I wound up thinking to my self "why am I playing this when I'm not having fun?" I put it away and haven't touched it since. It's a well made game, clearly the product of passion, but it just wasn't the game for me.

Dead or alive 3 (XBOX) Played less like a whole new game and more like a fucking expansion pack. If you already have DOA 2 there is no reason what so ever to get this. Beat a few of the character's stories, touched on some of the other modes and gave a resounding "meh" as I put it away.

 

[The Random Critic]

- Does the Sun ever fucking come out?

It does, and you'd better praise it ************.

Dragon Age Orgin, I got though everything until the meeting during both my playthoughs. Then I never touched the game again...

The worse part is that I beat DA2.

Also, currently it's probably Kingdom hearts 2, but then again. I beat the game like 2 times (3 if you gonna count HD), I know what's gonna happen next. Might give Sephy anther shot though

 

[bishopzz]

Max Payne 3: The story wasn't particularly interesting and I the found the combat awkward.

Every Assassins Creed game I have played: I find no part of these games very gripping, everything just feels so generic.

Call of Jaurez: BIB: My house burned down shortly after I began playing it and I never got around to repurchasing it.

Too Human: Did anyone complete this game?

SplinterCell Blacklist: I just found Sam Fisher's new voice too jarring to continue playing.

Duke Nukem Forever: The Cyclops boss battle was so frustrating it made me break my controller, after I killed it I couldn't find the energy to continue.

 

[Blacklight28]

XCOM: Enemy Within - The war just drags on too far. Eventually I end up without a sense of direction and feel like the game isn't actually progressing anywhere. That and some of the battles are just soul crushing (largely thanks to the RNG), and I'm not even playing on the hardest difficulty.

Tomb Raider - I went into this thinking it was going to be in the same vein as Far Cry 3. It wasn't. QTEs everywhere, platforming was tedious, gunplay was terrible, and the sheer amount of punishment Lara was put though incredibly off putting. I'm not one to shy away from violence, but it was just so gratuitous... I felt like I hear more of her screaming grating at my ears than any actual dialogue. It's closer to torture porn than character building.

The Elder Scrolls/Fallout 3 & New Vegas - I don't really abandon the game as much as I do characters. I usually get bored of characters around level 20-30. It's a pain as I have bought a lot of DLCs for those games that should be started around that level.

The Witcher 2 - I really wanted to like this game. I really did. Unfortunately there is just something I can't quite put my finger on that prevents me from getting into it.

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood/Revelations - Assassin's Creed is sooooo boooooring. The combat is still the same as it was back in the first game, only with additional options to make it easier! The game is basically a whole load of pointless timekillers with Assassin's being shoehorned into every major historical event of the era. I still have abit of hope for the next Far Cry game or two, but the rest of Ubisoft's big franchises have just feel like a chain of factory produced garbage. I might get Black Flag for the ship gimmick, but I ain't paying more than a few bucks for it.

Crysis Warhead - The gameplay is just a chore, story is little more than "Shoot the Koreans! Oh no aliens!" (though I must admit I like the alien in the first games).

Dark Souls - The game broke me in Blighttown. I have no will to keep pushing.

Dragon Age: Origins - It's alright, but either the combat is too hard or I'm just incapable of getting any good at it. I'm still trying to get the blood and scrolls for my trial to become part of the grey wardens, but I've been closed into too paths, both leading to gangs of guys that just massacre my party.

 

[Evonisia]

Already posted I know, but would it count as "abandoning" a game if you've played it before? I've played through XCOM: Enemy Unknown three times and Enemy Within once, and I started another game of EU a few months ago and just stopped midway.

 

[Trunkage]

There are two types of abandoned games: 1) games you feel guilty about abandoning, and wish you had the mental fortitude to play again. 2) Games that you are indifferent about or just glad you stopped playing.

To this day, I haven't forgiven myself for never finishing Fallout 2 (not a typo, that's a 2), and The Witcher 2.

Oh God Fallout 2. Why did it have to suck so much more than Fallout 1. I've tried a couple of times, I just can't do it.

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

Most recently would be Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker. I abandoned it a year ago after I "beat" it, then went back to get the true ending after watching some MGS5 stuff. I love game and was doing extra missions to level up my base, get weapons, good units but I lost interest. In order to continue with the extra missions I had to beat Peace Walker 2.0 and fuck that. The fight was impossible and guides I found told me waste time getting weapons and armor in Outer Ops. I loved this kind of gameplay where you gather units and buid a base like in Portable Ops but I played Poops for the online so when it was all said and done, there wasn't any reason to keep getting weapons and units. And then I decided to move onto some of the ps+ games I'd been hanging onto

Honorable mentions go Shadow of the Colossus which I got busy with school and still plan to finish and Mag Runner which I quit when I couldn't beat a puzzle and said fuck it cause this game had some really janky solutions

 

[Hairless Mammoth]

Final Fantasy 13 is just sitting in my game rack. Haven't put it in my PS3 for ages, I'm just stuck in this hellish part. I play for five minutes and just scream "done!". No other game really comes to mind at the moment.

Yeah, at this point, I have to say that I've probably abandoned FF13, too.

It isn't that I wasn't enjoying it. I was actually finally starting to get into it. I was 50-60 hours in (at some kind of tower, I believe), and something else came along that I wanted to play, so I dropped it.

I always meant to come back. But after SO many years, I feel like if I picked it up again, I'd have to start ALL the way from the beginning again to be able to remember what the hell was going on. And fuck that. I am not putting up with that first 30 hours AGAIN, just to find out how it ends.

And all this is compounded by the fact that there are not one, but TWO sequels out, so if I ended up liking it, I'd still have the daunting task of beating TWO MORE epicly long games just to get the full story. And no. No no no. I'm sorry FF13, but I'm done.

And it seems like most people would think that I'm not missing much anyways.

You want to know what happens so dang much? Look up Spoony's revoew of the game. He even kills a stand -in for Snow!

His reviews are the only entertainment I got out of 13 and most of the entertainment I got out of X-2 after quiting halfway through it. I still love the X and VIII reviews, despite playing 10 over and over and liking 8 just enough that I might play it a second time someday. Best part in 13's was when he found out who the voice actor was for a certain annoying character. Can't wait for whatever he's hinting at with 7 and the continuation of the assault against 13's sequels. I still wish he gave 9 another try and his honest opinion on the game.

 

[Qage]

[B/]Mass Effect[/B] - I played it for the first time a few years after it came out and I struggled hard to get into it, which is odd because it seems like the sort of thing I could quite enjoy. So little of the game clicked for me, but a lot of my reasoning for abandoning it was the pacing. Starts off with maybe 30 minutes of action, yeah, get me pumped up for the following [I/]3 hours[/I] of incredibly dry space politics, which is immediately followed by having to go down to the surface of planets and "drive" around in that hideously controlled car. No thanks, Mass Effect.

[B/]Skyrim[/B] - This is an interesting case. I have sunk over 100 hours into Skyrim according to Steam, but I don't remember any of it. What I do remember is playing the game and suddenly going "Wait a second, this is profoundly disinteresting, why am I still playing this?" and have never played it since. Thinking back to it now, I suspect the main reason I lost interest was that not a single one of the NPCs seem at all interested in anything they're saying and I just found it hard to care when they didn't seem to at all. Oblivion's dialogue system gets a lot of hate (and I can sort of see why, don't get me wrong) but it seemed as if the voice actors actually gave a shit that time round, even if they were hamming it right up.

[B/]Legend of Grimrock[/B] - LoG is a fun game, and yet, I just stopped playing one day and have never gone back to it. I don't even know why, just haven't wanted to go back and try it. As fun as it was, I feel that it got quite tedious in later levels, especially if you wanted to explore absolutely everything on a single floor.

 

[Elijin]

Almost every Final Fantasy / JRPG game.

I hit that point where it says 'This is the point of no return, go do everything else first'. And I start doing everything else, and then I either lose interest because it takes so long, or I take a break and forget what I was doing when I load it up again...so I stop loading it up again.

Bonus points for the few times I have gone on to finish the game and been really 'meh'. When you do everything, as suggested, the boss fights to 'end the game' tend to take about 2-3 hits from your crazy overpowered characters.

This also applies to every Elder Scrolls game. Where I have immediately run off in search of adventure, and never even done like the second story quest.

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

I've abandoned Borderlands 2. I never really liked it until Gaige was added, and I've run my course with her. Or more accurately I've done every thing I wanted to.

What I didn't want to do was have to farm Flynt the rest of my life for some damn Thunderball fists but after 300+ runs I have nothing to show for the time I wasted.

I also went through the trouble to glitch my way back into the treasure room in Pirate DLC like 15 times and also have nothing to show for it. I can't even find any public games worth joining because I don't have the other 3 dlc/people just stand around or port to sanctuary for 20 min for no reason.

I would be mildly excited about the Pre-Sequel, but I despise the direction they are going with the classes. Nisha looks broken as hell what with not even needing to aim at all with her action skill.

Athena is the only one of them I would play, which would continue the series tradition of there only being one character per game I could stand to play as.

Moreover I'm beyond sick of Anthony Birch. I like his sister in her own works, and even together to a degree in HAWP, but I'm fairly certain his hand is what made me dislike BL2 so much.

That and the .0000000000000000000002% drop rates on the more interesting gear.

I got plenty of good stuff just playing the game, and even killing a few things a dozen times. But I spent days farming Doc Mercy and Flynt, only to find that they were actually bugged for drops. And after the fix, Flynt still rarely drops ANYTHING let alone something good. I think I got an infinity out of a random chest, because I don't remember ever killing Mercy again after learning I wasted 1200 kills.

 

[Bvenged]

Dead Island 1
- One dull, dull game. Gave up after 30 minutes.

Dark Souls 1
- One faulty and repetitive game on PC. Not to mention if you fuck up you got to replay 10 minutes until you get it right.

Far Cry 2 and 3
- They were just dull games to me with cliché mechanics, average story lines and crappy voice quality. Bad RPG, average at best shooter.

Borderlands
- Got highly repetitive 3 hours in. Sold it. Bought it again to play coop with a friend, and made it further before getting inevitably bored.

(Not) surprisingly, I play a lot of games, so it's very rare that I ever outright stop playing a game. I even persevered LA Noir despite how bland it got and how long it dragged on.

 

[Revolutionary]

This I can actually answer quite well because I keep my steam library fairly well organised. I have a category for games i've given up on and will eventually come back to or just don't have time for and may eventually try.

Filed Under : "Aint nobody got time for that" Steam Category
Amnesia
Botanicula
Cargo Commander
Dark Souls
Dead Space
Dota 2
Dust: An Elyisian Tail
FF VII
Guacamelee
Hard Reset
Jet Set Radio
Magicka
Pay Day 2
Risen 2

 

[Pikey Mikey]

Snip

Half Minute Hero, Space Hulk, Hotline Miami, Papers Please, Bioshock Infinite, Torchlight, Ocarina of Time, BALDUR'S GATE, Valkyria Chronicles 2: All complete shit.

But...But...I like Baldur's Gate ='(
(Just kidding, I LOVE 'em, (but you're free to hate them =P))

 

[Pikey Mikey]

The Witcher 2 - I really wanted to like this game. I really did. Unfortunately there is just something I can't quite put my finger on that prevents me from getting into it.

Dark Souls - The game broke me in Blighttown. I have no will to keep pushing.

I raged more than a little on Witcher 2, because I had somewhere around NINE quests, but I could only progress with ONE and FINDING that one was such a fucking hassle I almost went insane (but a giant Riesen-wrapper draped in the skin of a rhino descended from down below to calm me up)

Dark Souls. I spent such a colossal amount of time in Blighttown (at least it felt like it) before I went to a wiki and saw that the boss was literally "down and right" and then I killed her first try in like two minutes... The apathetic rage =P

 

[Ishal]

Dark Souls 2: Unless it's the DLC, the vanilla game's levels and bosses are just not enjoyable. [Rant] WHY IS THE DLC BETTER?! YOU HAD TIME THIS TIME! [/Rant]

Have you played Crown of the Old Iron King yet?

Because for someone who thought the base game was bad, I find it hard to believe you'd like that one.

As for me, I thoroughly enjoyed Dark Souls 2. The B-team analysis has merit, but even then I loved it. It's a different game than Dark Souls, and I'm able to enjoy it on those terms.

OT:

Skyrim: for as a much as I love the game. There comes a point where it just kinda get's boring. I always end up coming back to it though.

Pretty much all of Ubisoft's open world games with the exception of Far Cry 3. Especially Watch Dogs, what a steaming pile of garbage.

My friends try to get me to play old JRPG games, and I just can't. I get going and it just wears on me.

Roguelikes. But that's not a criticism against the games. They're designed to be played like that, then put down for a while if you get bored or burnt out. And like Skyrim, I always come back to them.

 

[MeatMachine]

Portal.
I didn't even make it to the part where you incinerate the Companion Cube. Got stuck, got frustrated, shelved it. Great fucking game, don't get me wrong - I just wasn't enamored by the gameplay as much as most people were.

Killing Floor.
Far surpassed Level 6 in all perks, even beat most of the levels on Hell on Earth, which is damn near impossible - 1 slip-up, and everyone is dead instantly. Picked it back up last week, and now I can barely handle moderate difficulty.

Skyrim.
It's just too damn easy to break the game with overpowered crafting. Once you get enough enchantments that reduces Destruction magic cost by over 100%, you can rain fireballs at everything without consequence.

Age of Empires 2.
I thought I was hot shit at this game because I beat all the campaigns on Moderate difficulty back in 2004. Then it came out on Steam a while back. Then I played online. Saying I got "thrashed" is an understatement.

Doom II.
I've literally been playing this game my whole life. I am omniscient about this game. Only reason why I don't STILL play it is because the Steam version's controls suck, and you can't change them.